Checklist: Risk List
This checklist provides guidance on assessing that all possible risks have been considered in a project.
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Have all potential risks to the project been identified?
  • Have you identified anything that can be on the path to the project success? 
  • Have you involved the team and stakeholders in risk identification?
  • Have you made sure that several categories where considered  (technical, project management, organizational, and external)?

List all potential risks, giving a description and type (direct or indirect). See Concept: Risk for more information.

Have all risks been described without ambiguity?
Are risks captured and described risks in a clear, concise and unambiguous way? Also follow these rules when describing response strategies for risks. This will avoid unnecessary work and - more importantly - that risks are effectively identified and managed.
Have all major risks been evaluated?
  • Has the team assessed the order of magnitude of  each risk (probability x impact)?
  • Have the risks been sorted according to their magnitude? This allows you to address the higher magnitude risks early in the project.
  • Has a response strategy been decided for higher magnitude risks?

See Concept: Risk and Guideline: Managing Risks for more information.

Are there interdependencies between risks?

Make sure you establish interdependencies between risks as appropriate. For example, the consequence of a risk happening may raise the probability of another risk happening, or raise the impact that other risk brings to the project. If risks depend on each other, you may need a response strategy to mitigate all interdependent risks at the same time, or revisit the risk list to update the magnitude of dependent risks.